(Author's Note: I wrote this before the news broke about the brilliant, determined, heroic IDF having eliminated Yahya Sinwar--something that would never have happened had Israel listened to Biden and stayed out of Rafah. This war that Iran and its terrorist proxies have declared is far from over. And where are our hostages? Are they still alive?)

By Phyllis Chesler -- I cannot remember a time in which Americans, including American Jews, were so polarized, each believing that they are "right," and that the fate of the country--of the very world depends on everyone agreeing with them. Tolerating intellectual and political differences is verboten, too threatening,  not when everyone's fate seems to be hanging in the balance.

In the last year, I tried very hard to maintain a dialogue with one honorable feminist. No matter what article I sent her way, what true facts I marshalled, she immediately sent me mirror opposite, left-wing falsehoods, politically correct "narratives." She was convinced that Israel was committing a genocide on innocent Gazan civilians and, given my stature, she could not understand or accept my having been taken over by such dark, patriarchal forces.